UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
Introduction to Methods, Skills and Production Techniques Learner Name: Assessment Tutors: Alex Dobson & Amy Miedzwiecki Units Covered: Unit 1 Introduction to creative media methods and skills Unit 2 Introduction to production techniques in creative media Assessment Start Date: Week Commencing: 05/09/16 Assessment Deadline Date: 04/11/16 ASSIGNMENT AIM AND PURPOSE: You will be introduced to a range of methods and skills used in the industry as well as developing an understanding of the skills necessary to both record and communicate your ideas. You will be provided with an introduction to production processes and technical skills used in games development, their particular characteristics and the related skills necessary to support your own production work. ASSIGNMENT SCENARIO: You are a new intern at a 2D Indie games company where they expect you to develop your practical game production skills and techniques to show how you would be a valuable employee when you finish your placement. During this assignment you will keep a blog that documents the range of new skills you learn and how you demonstrate, communicate and assess the effectiveness your ideas for task based projects.
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
SUGGESTED RESEARCH/ RESOURCES
• Game Maker Basic Projects - Davd Walker (class book) • It’s Learning materials in Unit 1 Introduction to creative media methods and skills • It’s Learning materials in Unit 2 Introduction to production techniques in creative media BLOG
During this assignment brief you will demonstrate your learning in a range of game production processes and skills. You will assess how effectively you have applied each technique and skill and your own learning via a blog for each task listed on the assignment brief. You will be be responsible for maintaining your interactive blog to evidence what you have learned, this can be through blog posts, photographs, print screens, drawings, audio and video recordings that documents what you have learned in class and in your own study time. Your tutors will use this to assess your ideas, research and skills, how you have progressed, in addition to observing you in class.
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
ASSIGNMENT TASK 1 - TRADITIONAL PIXEL DRAWING:
PRACTICAL: You will be required to draw: • Minimum of 1 sheet of colour thumbnail character sketches with variations of the original characters from the following games: - Breakout - Pac Man - Space Invaders • Minimum of 1 sheet of colour thumbnail objects sketches with variations of the original objects from the following games: - Breakout - Pacman - Space Invaders Choose which game you would like to produce a final character and related objects for: • 1 Final A3 variation of character concept in colour • 1 Final A3 related object concepts in colour BLOG: • Research into characters and related objects for retro and remakes of Breakout, Pac Man and Space Invaders • Demonstrate and communicate the new drawing skills you develop, which can include written notes, annotations and photographs • Asess and compare final artwork outcomes, linking this to your research and thumbnail experiments. EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION: • Thumbnail Sheets • Retro Variation Character • Related Character/Environment Object(s) • Traditional Drawing Blog Related Links: https://www.atari.com/arcade http://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
Assignment Week
Assignment Tasks
WEEK 1 05/09/16
Induction and introduction to assignment brief. Research into 2D pixel game art characters and objects
WEEK 2 12/09/16
Thumbnails
WEEK 3 19/09/16
Final character and objects variation
WEEK 4 26/09/16
No traditional drawing class tasks
WEEK 5 03/10/16
No traditional drawing class tasks
WEEK 6 10/10/16
No traditional drawing class tasks
WEEK 7 17/10/16
No traditional drawing class tasks
HALF TERM
WEEK 8 31/10/16
Deadline week - Finish EVERYTHING
WEEK 9 07/11/16
Assessment week and TRIP :)
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
ASSIGNMENT TASK 2 - DIGITAL PIXEL DRAWING:
PRACTICAL: Using Photoshop recreate your character and related objects from your final traditional drawings. • 1 Final character concept in colour (portrait) • 1 Final related objects concepts in colour (landscape) BLOG: • Discuss the effectiveness of the digital production tools in Photoshop that you used to create your artworks. • Assess all digital artwork comparing your final outcomes to your traditional artwork research and thumbnail references EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION: • Retro Variation Character • Related Character/Environment Object(s) • Digital Drawing Blog All files need to be JPEG format and appropriately named e.g duke_nukem.jpg Related Links: http://www.spriters-resource.com/ https://www.atari.com/arcade http://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
Assignment Week
Assignment Tasks
WEEK 1 05/09/16
Induction and introduction to assignment brief
WEEK 2 12/09/16
No digital drawing class tasks
WEEK 3 19/09/16
No digital drawing class tasks
WEEK 4 26/09/16
Final Character and related objects digital drawing
WEEK 5 03/10/16
Final Character and related objects digital drawing
WEEK 6 10/10/16
No digital drawing class tasks
WEEK 7 17/10/16
No digital drawing class tasks
HALF TERM
WEEK 8 31/10/16
Deadline week - Finish EVERYTHING
WEEK 9 07/11/16
Assessment week and TRIP :)
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
TASKS ASSIGNMENT TASK 3 - 2D GAME ENGINES:
PRACTICAL: You will be required to make and complete 3 games using GameMaker: • Breakout • Pacman • Space Invaders Before you start you will need to download the following resources from It’s Learning in Unit 1 Introduction to creative media methods and skills • Download the game assets provided in unit Introduction to creative media methods and skills • Download and install the free version of Gamemaker 8.1 These games will teach you different skills and techniques used in popular 2D games and apps. You will need to think about their approaches and how to use the game engine so that you can start to learn how to make your own 2D game. BLOG: • You will need to discuss the relationship between each game and their target audiences. • Demonstrate and communicate the new production skills you develop throughout the production process of each game, which can include written notes, print screens, audio commentary, or video capture. • Assess and compare the final outcome for each game, which can include written notes, print screens, audio commentary, or video capture. EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION:
• 3 games (exe GameMaker files appropriately named e.g duke_nukem.jpg) • 2D game engines blog
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
Assignment Week
Assignment Tasks
WEEK 1 05/09/16
Induction and introduction to assignment brief
WEEK 2 12/09/16
Creating Break Out
WEEK 3 19/09/16
Creating Break Out
WEEK 4 26/09/16
Creating Pac man
WEEK 5 03/10/16
Creating Pac man
WEEK 6 10/10/16
Creating Space Invaders
WEEK 7 17/10/16
Creating Space Invaders
HALF TERM
WEEK 8 31/10/16
Deadline week - Finish EVERYTHING
WEEK 9 07/11/16
Assessment week and TRIP :)
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
TASKS ASSIGNMENT TASK 4 - 2D ANIMATION:
PRACTICAL: Using your own choice of sprites from Spriters Resource, you will be required to create as a minimum the following animation sequences in Fireworks or Photoshop: • Glow • Explosion • Walk Cycle Before you start you will need to download all of your chosen sprites from: http://www.spriters-resource.com/ (or your own chosen website) BLOG: • Demonstrate and communicate the new production skills you develop throughout the production process of each game, which can include written notes, print screens, audio commentary, or video capture. • Assess and compare the effectiveness of your animation sequences using the following criteria: - Timing - Smoothness This can include written notes, print screens, audio commentary, or video capture. EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION: • All animation cycles to be saved as an animated gif from Fireworks or Photoshop, appropriately named e.g duke_nukem.jpg • Animation blog
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
Assignment Week
Assignment Tasks
WEEK 1 05/09/16
Induction and introduction to assignment brief
WEEK 2 12/09/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 3 19/09/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 4 26/09/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 5 03/10/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 6 10/10/16
Animation class tasks
WEEK 7 17/10/16
Animation class tasks
HALF TERM
WEEK 8 31/10/16
Deadline week - Finish EVERYTHING
WEEK 9 07/11/16
Assessment week and TRIP :)
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
ASSIGNMENT TASK 5 - Sound Effects and Music:
PRACTICAL:
Using your own choice of sounds from sound libraries, you will be required to replace the sound effects and music in at least 1 of the games that you have made in the practical 2D game engines task. You will want to consider a range of sounds such as: • • • • •
Looped in-game music Character Movment Pick-ups Death Game over
Before you start you will need to download all of your chosen sounds from a free sound library: • www.soundsnap.com (use username salfordsoundsnap and pasword audiopost) • http://www.freeplaymusic.com/index.aspx • http://www.soundboard.com/ • http://soundbible.com/free-sound-effects-1.html BLOG: • Research into 2D retro games and remakes of Breakout, Pac Man and Space Invaders for sound influences • Assess and compare the effectiveness of your sounds using the following criteria: - Timing with on screen motion - Volume levels - Suitability of sounds EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION: • All raw and edited sounds to be saved as a wav or mp3 appropriately named e.g duke_nukem.jpg • Gamemaker Exe file with integrated working sounds • Audio Blog
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
Assignment Week
Assignment Tasks
WEEK 1 05/09/16
Induction and introduction to assignment brief
WEEK 2 12/09/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 3 19/09/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 4 26/09/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 5 03/10/16
No animation class tasks
WEEK 6 10/10/16
Sound class tasks
WEEK 7 17/10/16
Sound class tasks
HALF TERM
WEEK 8 31/10/16
Deadline week - Finish EVERYTHING
WEEK 9 07/11/16
Assessment week and TRIP :)
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
This assignment covers the following grading criteria: Unit Unit 1 Introduction to creative media methods and skills
Unit 2 Introduction to production techniques in creative media
Learning Outcomes
Assessment Criteria
1 Understand a range of methods and skills in the development, delivery and communication of a creative media activity.
1.1 Demonstrate the use of a range of methods and skills in support of a creative media activity.
1 Understand a range of production processes and skills in the development and delivery of a creative media activity
1.2 Communicate ideas to support the development and delivery of a creative media activity. 1.3 Assess the effectiveness of communication methods and skills to develop ideas in support of a creative media activity. 1.1 Select and compare, through experimental application, a range of production processes in support of a creative media activity. 1.2 Demonstrate the use of production processes and skills to affect outcomes in creative media activity. 1.3 Assess the effectiveness of selected processes and skills in creative production.
UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts
This brief has been verified as being fit for purpose by:
Assessor: Amy Miedzwiecki & Alex Dobson Date: 05/09/2016
Internal Verifier: Amy Miedzwiecki and Alex Dobson
Date: 05/09/2016